Open and Free Technology Community

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The Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC) is an IRC network founded in 2001. It is a member project of Software in the Public Interest. The network is particularly popular with free and open source software programmers, and supports SSL and IPv6 connections.

[edit] Notable chat rooms

  • #debian: official community-supported IRC channel for Debian.
  • #kernelnewbies: support channel for beginning Linux kernel programmers.
  • #offtopic - Channel for off-topic chat.
  • #tor: official Tor channel. Tor is a low latency anonymity network.
  • #openttd - Channel for the opensource game OpenTTD.

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